My life has turned into one long series of argu­ments with the cat over eat­ing, inter­rupted with occa­sional bouts of work.   Prior to the week before last, any dis­cus­sion with my cat about eat­ing would be about him eat­ing too much.  Now, he’s sick with unspec­i­fied liver prob­lems, prob­lems that would cost a min­i­mum of $500 to diag­nose further,possibly more. With the vet’s agree­ment, we’ve decided to take a more con­ser­v­a­tive route with him and see what we can do with just  get­ting him stuffed with food–part of the prob­lem, he said, was that he wasn’t eating.

Now, he doesn’t throw up any­more, that’s a good sign.  But get­ting him to eat con­stantly is like argu­ing with a tod­dler. You can’t explain to him why he needs to eat.  You can keep try­ing to trick him, but he catches on and I’m run­ning out of meth­ods.  We even have this high calo­rie paste that we’re sup­posed to be able to get him to lick off his paws or what­not, but we put some of that on and he just got pissed and let it stay there until it dried up and flaked off.  Despite this, he seems to be act­ing fairly normal–certainly not act­ing as sick as he did when we took him into the vet first.  I just don’t know what to do with him.  He feels bony.  When the vet calls today, I guess I will make more arrange­ments to have him in and weighed and given fluids.

Anyway, here’s another canyon photo.  Last one, I think, until I go back some time.  Which at the rate this cat is cost­ing me money, will be 2015.

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